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Confessions of a Cycle Commuter

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  1. I were right about that saddle
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    @gembo

    You can put a nine-mil in the back of my head if you ever find my lights Gaffa-taped on.

    See also retaining brackets on handlebars for lights I no longer have.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  2. ejstubbs
    Member

    @iwrats: I have a TL-LD1100 kicking around not being used (replaced it with a Fly6) if your attempts to repair yours fail. I agree it it is a good light.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  3. I were right about that saddle
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    @ejstubbs

    Very generous, thanks. I shall report back.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  4. Rosie
    Member

    Yesterday on the canal. Passed a runner. I mused & cruised for a little space, slowing down for approaching cyclists, to pass pedestrians with consideration and then was passed by the same runner.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  5. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats, no gaffa but might have the odd bracket in the hope the next light I buy fits the existing one. This can happen

    Posted 6 years ago #
  6. the canuck
    Member

    hoping gembo never sees my rear (removable) light held on with rubber band.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  7. I were right about that saddle
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    @ejstubbse

    Turns out the dropping of the light was co-incidental. It's actually the bracket that has failed - the wee bendy thing that forms the clip had lost its elasticity. Stainless steel strip splint epoxy resined on - we shall see if it works/lasts.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  8. unhurt
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    Just think how handy it would have been if you still had several legacy brackets stored on the bike to try?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  9. I were right about that saddle
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    @unhurt

    But;

    a) @gembo would have shot me down like a mad dog, and
    b) I'd have missed an opportunity to Araldite.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  10. wingpig
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    @gembo Flatbattery will get you nowhere.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  11. unhurt
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    I'm now assuming @gembo goes armed at all times on his commutes, just in case he has to administer jury-rigged-light justice. A cycling Judge Dredd sort of situation.

    I'd have missed an opportunity to Araldite.

    You can open the tube and sniff it any time - no need to wait for these excuses to present themselves.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  12. gembo
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    @wingpig, this entry qualifies you also to run against frenchy and big Norman as future president of the GEOPOETICS society.

    For the record I am pro extra brackets, rubber bands, bodges and gaffa. It is benign dictator IWRATS who has his rules

    Posted 6 years ago #
  13. gembo
    Member

    @unhurt, araldite is two tubes you get to play mix n stick with. In my glue box anyway.

    Epoxy resin, I am saying just to hear the sound of it.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  14. unhurt
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    @gembo I apologise, though I'm a bit sad to abandon the Dredd comparison. Btw the local Bethany Trust shop has a foot high pile of 1980s 2000ADs for sale at the minute. I can't risk going back in or I'll leave with about half of them. (One has a Joe Pineapples PIN UP on the back!)

    Edit: Hmm, just reminded myself of Cal-Hab (Scotland's answer to Mega-City One.) Maybe I need to check if any of them have Cal-Hab stuff in and just buy those...

    Posted 6 years ago #
  15. gembo
    Member

    @unhurt, get as many as you want, why not?

    I had the first six copies ever of 2000AD as a wee boy. If only I had kept them in the wrapper instead of reading them, using the special agent card etc. I would have comics worth pounds and pounds.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  16. I were right about that saddle
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    @ejstubbs

    Looks like the Araldite and steel bodge has worked. Thanks for your kind offer all the same.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  17. wingpig
    Member

    My cousin used to comment mockingly on things like my light-bracket-repurposed-as-mudguard-clamp, even though it was extremely secure.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  18. ejstubbs
    Member

    @iwrats: You're welcome. It's always satisfying to effect a quality repair.

    There's a saying: engineers like fixing things and sometimes, if there's nothing that needs fixing, they'll break something just so that they can enjoy fixing it. I studied engineering at uni but ended up in IT. However, I still have some of those engineer's urges - which might be why my bike is currently on the workstand in the garage, with the bits of its old groupset in a box and a shiny new groupset half installed.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  19. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    It's always satisfying to effect a quality repair.

    Tested it this morning and....the plastic is of the greasy Araldite resistant type. The steel-pinned bit has held, but not the glued bit.

    Oh well, only a wee bracket. $2 online....

    Posted 6 years ago #
  20. unhurt
    Member

    Duct tape and an elastic band meanwhile as you wait for it to ship?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  21. I were right about that saddle
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    @unhurt

    Are you trying to get me killed?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  22. unhurt
    Member

    What, and cut off my crowbar, micrometer & air rifle supply? No, it's just that I can't shake this image of Gembo Bickle...

    Posted 6 years ago #
  23. gembo
    Member

    My duck tape has a drawing of a duck on it

    Yrs

    Travis

    P.s. As i reiterated IWRATS is tape police. Not me.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  24. unhurt
    Member

    P.S. I know, I know - but you could carry off the haircut I think?
    P.P.S. New lyrics to Jazz Police?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  25. gembo
    Member

    Tape police are paid by Scotch And Duck tape
    Tapers paid by Scotch and Duck tape too

    Posted 6 years ago #
  26. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Got my bit from the Bike Co-op. £2.99. No regrets for the time spent bodging though. All good.

    Posted 6 years ago #
  27. sallyhinch
    Member

    Cycling home using my nice C&B Seen lights on the Brompton in anger for the first time. Pitch dark as I turn onto our rural road and head down hill. Decide to turn the light up to its brightest setting (I was using the lower setting as I wasn't sure how long the battery would last). Hold the button down fractionally too long and switch the light off. Do I stop, so I can safely turn the light back on (my sole light)? I do not. Instead I am looking down and fiddling with the buttons as the bike gathers speed. I look up suddenly, realise I can see *nothing*, panic, and come to an undignified but fortunately upright stop before I career off the road and into the trees (and ultimately the burn below). I think I might get a second backup light ...

    User error aside, it's a nice bright light, and works really well on unlit rural roads

    Posted 6 years ago #
  28. sallyhinch
    Member

    (this is why I don't drive, by the way. It's funny when I'm on a bike but that level of incompetence really doesn't go well with a tonne of metal moving at speed)

    Posted 6 years ago #
  29. I were right about that saddle
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    I career off the road and into the trees (and ultimately the burn below)

    Good Lord, are you alright?

    Posted 6 years ago #
  30. sallyhinch
    Member

    Yes! I meant that I managed to stop *before* that could happen. Cuh, call myself a writer and editor

    Posted 6 years ago #

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